"FIRST Classes" - High School robotic science class offerings and syllabi

[kmcclary]

To all teams and educators at schools that offer FIRST related classes:

We did it!

After much discussion, starting this fall the Ann Arbor School District (i.e. Huron and Pioneer High) has decided to allow the Tech Ed Department to develop and offer a "Robotics oriented science curriculum". <YES!!!> <Snoopy Dance>

To that end, we now need suggestions and class syllabi for their offerings.

As of now, there are already two classes "formed":

- A "Robotics Electronics / Intro to [Robotics] Design" class of some kind (subjects TBD, but building robots will be an integral goal), and

- A "CAD/Animation" class featuring the FIRST animation software (Inventor 5, et al...) In fact, they've already approved the purchase of a "class worth of seats" of each package for it!

BUT... We still need your "offering" and "syllabus" suggestions and help to determine what topics should be in these classes, and what other ones should be offered. Please tell us what all of you guys offer now, and how you've set up your classes at your schools (i.e. online, class(es) for credit, etc.) so I can pass this data on to the school.

My questions:
1) What FIRST related class or class sequence does your HS offer now?
2) What does your "course sequence" look like?
3) What topics are covered in each semester class?
4) How we can contact you to get a copy of your syllabus/syllabi for planning review?
5) What did not work well as a class for you?
6) Are there any teams out there whose website collects links to this kind of data now?

Feel free to post class URLs here, if available, or contact me directly if you have something REALLY long so we can discuss the emailing of more comprehensive information for review.

Who knows? If things work out (and the students are lucky), given enough info to present the AAPS school system may even create a Science Major out of this! (Ah, one can only dream... )

Thanks!

- Keith